Exile and creativity : signposts, travelers, outsiders, backward glances / edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman.

Other author Suleiman, Susan Rubin, 1939-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Descriptionvi, 449 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Exsul / Christine Brooke-Rose -- Exile as romance and as tragedy / Thomas Pavel -- Art and the conditions of exile : men/women, emigration/expatriation / Linda Nochlin -- "Mamãe, disse ele," or, Joyce's second hand / Hélène Cixous -- Letter from Paris (foreign mail) / Denis Hollier -- At home abroad : El Inca shuttles with Hebreo / Doris Sommer -- Gombrowicz's tango : an Argentine snapshot / Alicia Borinsky -- Surrealists in exile : another kind of resistance / Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron -- Jean Renoir's return to France / Janet Bergstrom -- A master of amazement : Armando's self-chosen exile / Ernst van Alphen -- Estrangement as a lifestyle : Shklovsky and Brodsky / Svetlana Boym -- Bakhtin versus Lukács : inscriptions of homelessness in theories of the novel / John Neubauer -- Romain Gary : a foreign body in French literature / Nancy Huston -- The welcome table : James Baldwin in exile / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Assimilation into exile : the Jew as a Polish writer / Zygmunt Bauman -- Strangerhood without boundaries : an essay in the sociology of knowledge / Tibor Dessewffy -- Persistent memory : central European refugees in an Andean land / Leo Spitzer -- Monuments in a foreign tongue : on reading Holocaust memoirs by emigrants / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Past lives : postmemories in exile / Marianne Hirsch.
General note"All of the essays in this book, with one exception, first appeared in the special double issue of Poetics today ... vol. 17, nos. 3-4, 1996"--Introd.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 97043276
ISBN0822321874 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822322153 (paper : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN56.5 E96 C74 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold